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What is matriarchal?
Female dominated
Male dominated
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What are ways language is a part of culture?
What is taught through education
Number system
calendar system
Different ways of communication: formal vs informal
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Define Patriarchy
Male dominated
Female dominated
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What is a command economy?
More than a person needs
Purchasing things or services for people
What someone can get for a service/product
The government sets the price
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What is a market economy?
What someone can get for a service/product
The government sets the price
A command economy
It's more than a person needs
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Americans expect certain things from government. Which one is NOT expected.
Bankers
Military
Teachers
Police protection
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What is a nuclear family?
Two generations (parent/child)
extended
More than two generations
blended
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Define monotheistic
The belief in female goddesses
The belief in the Greek gods
The belief in many gods
The belief in one god
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What is general labor?
Different people have different skills
More than you need
Everyone knows how to do just about everything
Working really hard
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Define animism
The belief that gods are in everything
The belief that the Greek gods were real
The belief that all things in nature are beautiful
The belief that life is animated
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What is art?
Art is crap
The way we see the world
What we value
How we define beauty
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American economy is based on __________.
Only market economy
Only command economy
A mix of command and market economy
A barter system
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What is one purpose of religion?
To define beauty
Controls behavior
To control economy
There is no purpose
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What is independence?
stand with others
July 4
Need for help from others
Stand on your own
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What did the Ancient Greeks think was the ultimate beauty?
Red and black pottery
Sculptures of the gods
Oil on canvas paintings
The male human body
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What is kinship?
Who you're related to
DNA - Blood related
clan
tribe
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Define specialized labor
Different people have different skills
Things or goods
Based on trade
Everyone knows how to do just about everything
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Define etiquette
French for food
being disrespectful to your family
love
courtesy; showing politeness
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What is a survival need?
Food, shelter, clothing
Social Rules and class
Food, shelter, Health
Clothing, Health, recreation
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What is interdependence
the reference to "inter"
stand on your own
Rely on people
Hang out with friends
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What aspect of culture does religion affect?
Customs and Traditions
Government
Social Organization
Arts and Literature
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What is a consumer economy?
What someone can get for it
Purchasing things or services
People work for only what is needed
More than a person needs; provides what people want
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What is polytheism?
The belief in one god
The belief in the Greek gods
The belief in only goddesses
The belief in many gods
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What is a barter system?
Based on currency
Based on trade
What you can get for something
A specific skill
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Which of the following does NOT fall under leadership when it comes to government?
Leadership can be taken away
Leaders can be bartered
Leadership can be inherited (king/queen)
Leaders can be elected
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How does a culture control and protect its members?
Through leadership
Through law and order
Through decision making
Through conflict resolution
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How do people become a nuclear family?
Fall in love; get married
Through the courts
Religious ceremonies
Families arrange marriages
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What is the family make up within societies?
Clothing, shelter, food
Social rules
The basic organization of any society
There isn't one
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Can you use your notes on this test?
No
Yes
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All holidays (holy days) have a religious aspect
True
False
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What is culture
passed through the generations
through imitation and education
behaviors, values, symbols
A way of life of a group
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There are five MAJOR religions in the world. Which one of the following is NOT one of the five?
Judaism
Sikhism
Buddhism
Hinduism
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Define subsistence
People use only what they need to survive
Everyone knows how to do different skills
Based only on trade
People get more than they actually need
